VESALIUS, Andreas. Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, edited by Hermann Boerhaave and Bernardus Siegfried Albinus. Leiden: Johannes du Vivie, Johannes and Hermann Verbeek, 1725. 2 volumes, large 2 (454 x 280mm.), half title in vol. I, titles printed in red and black, additional engraved title in vol. I (supplied in facsimile), engraved portrait and 77 (of 82) plates only from the printed woodcuts by Jan Wandelaar, numerous engraved illustrations, woodcut initials and tailpieces (engraved title and plates 74-75 supplied in facsimile, lacking plates 76a-c, outer margin of titles torn away and repaired affecting 2 letters of title in vol. II but sense recoverable, verso of margin of first 2 or 3 leaves in each volume with paper repair, 7 plates and a few text leaves stained, plate 67 laid down with some repairs, lower corner of plate 73 torn away, lower margin at end of vol. I lightly wormed, a few ink stains, some leaves spotted or lightly browned), modern half calf (hinges cracked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Cork Medical Institution, stamp on titles and manuscript note; Norwick, bookplate.FIRST AND ONLY COLLECTED EDITION OF VESALIUS' WORKS, containing "De humani corporis fabrica" (vol. I), "Epitome", the China-root epistle, Vesalius' response to Gabriele Fallopio's "Anatomical Observations", and "Chirurgia magna", attributed to the great anatomist (all in vol. II). Since the survival of the woodcuts was unknown to Boerhaave, this edition is illustrated with engraved plates copied from the printed woodcuts by Jan Wandelaar. The care with which Vesalius' illustrations were reproduced indicates that they were regarded as still having scientific value almost two centuries after their first publication. "The editors added explanations of Vesalius's sixteenth-century anatomical nomenclature for their eighteenth-century readers, and prefaced the first volume with a biography of Vesalius, which Lindeboom has tentatively attributed to Boerhaave" (Norman). Norman 2143; Waller 9917. (2)

VESALIUS, Andreas. Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, edited by Hermann Boerhaave and Bernardus Siegfried Albinus. Leiden: Johannes du Vivie, Johannes and Hermann Verbeek, 1725. 2 volumes, large 2 (454 x 280mm.), half title in vol. I, titles printed in red and black, additional engraved title in vol. I (supplied in facsimile), engraved portrait and 77 (of 82) plates only from the printed woodcuts by Jan Wandelaar, numerous engraved illustrations, woodcut initials and tailpieces (engraved title and plates 74-75 supplied in facsimile, lacking plates 76a-c, outer margin of titles torn away and repaired affecting 2 letters of title in vol. II but sense recoverable, verso of margin of first 2 or 3 leaves in each volume with paper repair, 7 plates and a few text leaves stained, plate 67 laid down with some repairs, lower corner of plate 73 torn away, lower margin at end of vol. I lightly wormed, a few ink stains, some leaves spotted or lightly browned), modern half calf (hinges cracked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Cork Medical Institution, stamp on titles and manuscript note; Norwick, bookplate. FIRST AND ONLY COLLECTED EDITION OF VESALIUS' WORKS, containing "De humani corporis fabrica" (vol. I), "Epitome", the China-root epistle, Vesalius' response to Gabriele Fallopio's "Anatomical Observations", and "Chirurgia magna", attributed to the great anatomist (all in vol. II). Since the survival of the woodcuts was unknown to Boerhaave, this edition is illustrated with engraved plates copied from the printed woodcuts by Jan Wandelaar. The care with which Vesalius' illustrations were reproduced indicates that they were regarded as still having scientific value almost two centuries after their first publication. "The editors added explanations of Vesalius's sixteenth-century anatomical nomenclature for their eighteenth-century readers, and prefaced the first volume with a biography of Vesalius, which Lindeboom has tentatively attributed to Boerhaave" (Norman). Norman 2143; Waller 9917. (2)

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VESALIUS, Andreas. Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, edited by Hermann Boerhaave and Bernardus Siegfried Albinus. Leiden: Johannes du Vivie, Johannes and Hermann Verbeek, 1725. 2 volumes, large 2 (454 x 280mm.), half title in vol. I, titles printed in red and black, additional engraved title in vol. I (supplied in facsimile), engraved portrait and 77 (of 82) plates only from the printed woodcuts by Jan Wandelaar, numerous engraved illustrations, woodcut initials and tailpieces (engraved title and plates 74-75 supplied in facsimile, lacking plates 76a-c, outer margin of titles torn away and repaired affecting 2 letters of title in vol. II but sense recoverable, verso of margin of first 2 or 3 leaves in each volume with paper repair, 7 plates and a few text leaves stained, plate 67 laid down with some repairs, lower corner of plate 73 torn away, lower margin at end of vol. I lightly wormed, a few ink stains, some leaves spotted or lightly browned), modern half calf (hinges cracked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Cork Medical Institution, stamp on titles and manuscript note; Norwick, bookplate.

FIRST AND ONLY COLLECTED EDITION OF VESALIUS' WORKS, containing "De humani corporis fabrica" (vol. I), "Epitome", the China-root epistle, Vesalius' response to Gabriele Fallopio's "Anatomical Observations", and "Chirurgia magna", attributed to the great anatomist (all in vol. II). Since the survival of the woodcuts was unknown to Boerhaave, this edition is illustrated with engraved plates copied from the printed woodcuts by Jan Wandelaar. The care with which Vesalius' illustrations were reproduced indicates that they were regarded as still having scientific value almost two centuries after their first publication. "The editors added explanations of Vesalius's sixteenth-century anatomical nomenclature for their eighteenth-century readers, and prefaced the first volume with a biography of Vesalius, which Lindeboom has tentatively attributed to Boerhaave" (Norman). Norman 2143; Waller 9917. (2)

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